Volume One of the 299-page Core Knowledge History of the United States covers events from the Precolonial Period to the 1800s.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's groundbreaking work Uncle Tom's Cabin is both historically and literarily relevant today. Read the entire text in an easily navigated site that allows learners to select their chapters and easily move to the...

The second volume of the Core Knowledge History of the United States ebook begins by asking young scholars to consider the impact immigration, industrialization, and urbanization had on the United States in the late 1800s. The text ends...

This ebook version of G. A. Henty's "With Lee In Virginia: A Story Of The American Civil War" has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed...

This site provides a hypertext formatted version of the Project Gutenberg edition of Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage."

A detailed presentation illustrating the history of Africans migrating to the Americas from as early as 1500 through the late 1860's. Review the distribution of Africans in North and South America, the initial settlements, escaped and...

This ebook version of Crane, Stephen Stephen Crane's The Red Badge Of Courage: An Episode Of The American Civil War has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of...

This University of Virginia Library site provides the text of Stephen Crane's "The Blue Hotel".

This section of a chapter on "The Civil War" describes the reasons why many Americans doubted that Abraham Lincoln would be reelected and explains how the Union forces overpowered the Confederacy.

This ebook version of Oliver Optic's Taken By The Enemy has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.

The Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia presents links to the online text for Walt Whitman's prose writing, "Memorandum During the War" in which Whitman records his thoughts and experiences visiting the wounded in the...

Text of the short story "Parker Adderson, Philosopher" by Ambrose Bierce, which is set during the American Civil War. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Discusses Kennedy's rise to power and the challenges he faced from within the government, his focus on foreign policy, the conflict with Cuba, American involvement in Vietnam, support for racial equality and civil rights, and Kennedy's...

The University of Michigan offers the full text of "War-lyrics and Other Poems," which was written by a Union sailor and dedicated to former commander, Vice-Admiral David G. Farragut. Users are able to read the text in its entirety, or...

Text of the short story "The School Girl" by T.S. Arthur, a 19th-century American author. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Last Stetson" by American author John Fox Jr. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Log of the 'Jolly Polly'" by American author Richard Harding Davis. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Magic Egg" by American author Frank Stockton. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Make-Believe Man" by American author Richard Harding Davis. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Man Who Could Not Lose" by American author Richard Harding Davis. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Means of Enjoyment" by American author T. S. Arthur. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Messengers" by Richard Harding Davis, an American author. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Mother's Promise" by American author T. S. Arthur. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Nature Faker" by American author Richard Harding Davis. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)